Improved biscuit-board and flour-chest



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.`

D. E. BRYER, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND d E. MAURER OF SAME PLAGE.

` IMPROVEDVBISCUlT-BRD AND FLOURsCHEST.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,040, 'lated August 30, 1364.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, D. E. BRYER, of Logansport, in the county of Uass and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved.

Biscuit-Board and Flour-Chest; and l do here- -by declare that the following is a t'ull, clear,

and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the'accompnying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Y Figure 1 is a plan or top view of my invention in an open state.' Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. I

- This invention consists in attaching a lid or cover to a chest in such a manner that it may be adjusted in an upright position when access to the chest only is required, and also be capable of being adjusted in a horizontal position when designed to be used as a biscuit-board, the chest being used as a receptacle for flour, bread, spices, &c.

A represents a chest, constructed of quadrilateral form-and of any suitable dimensions, and provided with partitions, so as to form two compartments, a. a, at the upper part of two bars, C C, the opposite ends ot' which are attached by pivots e e to the chest A, one at each side and at the back end ot' the upper part thereof, asshown clearly in Fig. 2L The bars C C are equal in length to the width of the chest A, and when the lid or cover B is on the chest so as to lcoverthe same, the bars C C are at each end ot' the lid or cover. At

the rear side of the chest, at its upper part,

there is attached a bracket, D, which is. designed to serve as a rest or support for the lid or cover when the latter is raised to a vertical position, as shown in red in Fig. 2j. The lid orcover is raised to thisposition when access only is required to the chest.

When a biscuit-board is required, the lid or cover is turned over and outward, a's shown in black outline in Figs. 1 and 2, and it isl supported by slides E E, 4which are fitted, o1 e'- in each side ot' the chest A, at its upper end. said slides being shoved in the 4chest out if the way when thelid or cover is not used' as a biscuit-board. Thus by this simple arrangement of the lid or cover I obtain a biscuitboard and our-chest which may be cheaply constructed,'equally so as an ordinary chest.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Lei-- ters Patent- A chest prJvided with a lid or cover applied to it in the manner substantially as herein shown and described, to admit of said lid kor cover being adjusted in the several positions specified, to form a new and improved oonchest and biscuit-board, as set forth.

D, E. BRYER. Witnesses:

C. CARTER, l R. R. REID. 

